Direct detection of electron–hole pairs generated by chemical reactions on metal surfaces

H Nienhaus, HS Bergh, B Gergen, A Majumdar… - Surface science, 2000 - Elsevier
… exothermic chemical reactions on metal surfaces occurs by creation of electron–hole pairs
in … The chemically created hot electrons travel ballistically through the metal film, traverse the …

Electronic excitations by chemical reactions on metal surfaces

H Nienhaus - Surface Science Reports, 2002 - Elsevier
… of reaction-induced hot electrons and holes possible. The chemical reaction creates hot charge
… of e–h pair excitation by rapid and exothermic chemical reactions on metal surfaces. The …

Efficient generation of electron-hole pairs in a selenium p-n junction exposed to atomic hydrogen

VV Styrov, SV Simchenko - JETP letters, 2012 - Springer
… the chemical reaction into an electric current. It is of interest to search for new
semiconductor–chemical reaction … in the form of electron–hole pair generation. Here, we …

Hydrogen bonds, and σ-hole and π-hole bonds–mechanisms protecting doublet and octet electron structures

SJ Grabowski - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
… lead to chemical reactions. Numerous interactions may be treated as the preliminary stages
of chemical reactions: … and regions with negative EPs related to lone electron pairs. The sp 3 …

Harvesting multiple electron–hole pairs generated through plasmonic excitation of Au nanoparticles

Y Kim, JG Smith, PK Jain - Nature chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
Multi-electron redox reactions, although central to artificial photosynthesis, are kinetically
sluggish. Amidst the search for synthetic catalysts for such processes, plasmonic nanoparticles …

Electron-hole pair excitation determines the mechanism of hydrogen atom adsorption

O Bünermann, H Jiang, Y Dorenkamp, A Kandratsenka… - Science, 2015 - science.org
… in , meaning that electron-hole pair excitation remains important … the predictions that
electron-hole pair excitation increases the … More generally, chemical reactions at a metal surface …

… of Photocatalytic Water Splitting in TiO2. Reaction of Water with Photoholes, Importance of Charge Carrier Dynamics, and Evidence for Four-Hole Chemistry

J Tang, JR Durrant, DR Klug - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2008 - ACS Publications
… the number of electron−hole pairs created and therefore both the number of states that are
filled by electrons and the probability of an electron encountering a hole. Excellent agreement …

Hole utilization in solar hydrogen production

MZ Rahman, T Edvinsson, J Gascon - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
… contribute to a single electron–hole pair or multiple electron–hole pairs. The latter can occur
… as electric current or to commence the chemical reactions, the ease of dissociation has little …

Geometries, electronic couplings, and hole dissociation dynamics of photoinduced electron–hole pairs in polyhexylthiophene–fullerene dyads rigidly linked by …

T Miura, R Tao, S Shibata, T Umeyama… - … American Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
… , indicating that the holes dissociate from the electrons at the … electron and the hole in the
electron–hole pair are initially … ≈ 1.6 eV for the dissociated pair of the radical anion and the …

Dynamics of electron-hole pair recombination in semiconductor clusters

M O'neil, J Marohn, G McLendon - Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1990 - ACS Publications
… -hole pairs per particle. This experiment was further motivated by the need to directly examine
multiple photogenerated e"/h+ pairs … of generating 3.6 electron-hole pairs per particle in a …